Monday, August 31, 2020

Vaccine-derived polio spreads in Africa after defeat of wild virus

A nurse from the NGO World Vision provides polio vaccination given by the World Health Organization to displaced children in the UNAMID base in Khor Abeche, South Darfur.

The Guardian 02 September, 2020

Fresh cases of disease linked to oral vaccine seen in Sudan, following outbreak in Chad.

A new polio outbreak in Sudan has been linked to the oral polio vaccine that uses a weakened form of the virus. 

News of the outbreak comes a week after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that wild polio had been eradicated in Africa. 

The WHO linked the cases to a strain of the virus that had been noted circulating in Chad last year and warned that the risk of spread to other parts of the Horn of Africa was high.

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